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President Donald Trump attends NBA Finals game at Madison Square Garden in New York on June 8, 2026. (SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

Why MAGA can’t hear the Trump boos

Sophia Tesfaye

Once you understand the MAGA reaction to the NBA Finals boos, everything else snaps into focus

Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina poses for a portrait in his office on Thursday February 20, 2025 in Laredo, TX. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

GOP candidate pushed donor's contract

Russell Payne

Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina is hoping his record in South Texas will carry him to Congress

Reliance Industries Chairman and Managing Director and billionaire business tycoon Mukesh Ambani (L), along with his wife, Reliance Foundation Founder and Chairperson Nita Ambani, attend celebrations marking the third anniversary of The Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai on April 3, 2026. (Photo by Sujit JAISWAL/Getty Images)

Don Jr. deal got WH off his back

Joshua Kaplan, Alex Mierjeski, Justin Elliott - ProPublica

An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Ambani

(Illustration by Salon / A24 / Bleeker Street Media / Warner Bros. Pictures / Music Box Films / Ad Vitam)

The best films of the year (so far)

Coleman Spilde

Outside of "good" or "bad," 2026's finest films have enough risk-taking creativity to restore your faith in movies

AI lending its hand to personal matters (SvetaZi/Getty Images)

Don’t write love letters with AI

Andi Zeisler

Why do GenAI boosters want you to outsource your brain?

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on May 30, 2026 in Singapore. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)

Hegseth's Mormon diss busts a MAGA myth

Amanda Marcotte

Christian nationalism isn't just immoral — it's incoherent

Fuel prices are displayed at a gas station in Brooklyn on June 01, 2026. Oil prices around the globe continue to rise as talks drag on between the United States and Iran over the closing of the Straight of Hormuz, causing a surge in the price of oil and a strain on millions of people's finances. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Get used to $5 gas

Russell Payne

Even if the war ends now, it will take months for prices to come down

Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., talks with reporters in the U.S. Capitol after a vote on Thursday, March 12, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Trump DOJ axed probe into GOP coal baron

Molly Redden, Avi Asher-Schapiro - ProPublica

DOJ put pressure on a probe into potential criminal violations of Justice's vast coal empire

(Salon)

Best VPN in the US for 2026

Jared Howe

We tested the top VPN services for streaming, privacy and speed in the United States

(Photo by Stefan Coders / pexels.com)

Pros and cons of using a VPN

Jared Howe

VPNs offer numerous benefits, but they're not a one-click solution for all of your needs

Voters cast their ballots at Town Hall in Kennebunk, Maine. (Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

Ranked choice voting: Maine's new normal

David Daley

Maine voters offer real hope for democracy — and it's got nothing to do with Graham Platner

Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil and singer Chris Cornell (Paul Rovere/Getty Images)

The Soundgarden memoir that fans needed

Caryn Rose

Rich with perspective, the band's lead guitarist revisits Seattle's music scene and the loss of Chris Cornell

Brine, brine, brine (Ashlie Stevens )

Summer has another flavor

Ashlie D. Stevens

Read this before you pour it down the drain

A U.S. soldier holds the flag ahead of a handover ceremony at Leatherneck Camp in Helmand province, Afghanistan,  April 29, 2017. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)

US spends billions on war, and can't win

Tom Engelhardt

The greatest military power in history hasn't managed to win a war since 1945. Doesn't that tell us something?

French Minister of the Armed Forces Catherine Vautrin and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a ceremony marking the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings, Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, June 6, 2026. (Lou Benoist/AFP via Getty Images)

Leave it to Pete Hegseth to ruin D-Day

Heather Digby Parton

The French are still grateful for America’s 1944 sacrifice. Hegseth’s loathsome tirade may have changed that

William Pulte on February 27, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Pulte's ties to secretive Christian org

Jonathan Larsen

The new acting national intelligence director’s grandfather was close with Fellowship Foundation leader Doug Coe

Election workers process ballots at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center on June 05, 2026. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Here's why California results take time

Dion Nissenbaum, Votebeat - Votebeat

Trump and GOP criticize the long wait, but an onslaught of late mail ballots takes time

"Backrooms" (A24/Asterios Moutsokapas)

Backrooms: A stealth Silicon Valley tale

Keith A. Spencer

Maybe this liminal space horror is telling a story about what happens when we get sucked into our screens

Patton Oswalt (Ethan Miller / Getty Images)

Patton Oswalt hates slop bowls, too

Joy Saha

“We’ve got to stop the bowls. Please stop the bowls," the actor and comedian desperately told Delish

From left, state Rep. Scott Bottoms, Victor Marx and state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer during a GOP gubernatorial debate at the Cable Center in Denver, June 2, 2026. (Aaron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Even purple Colorado's GOP has gone nuts

Amanda Marcotte

The lead in the GOP governor’s primary claims he’s an expert at “Cajun Karate” — the other two aren’t much better

(Mark Ralston/Getty Images)

People really are leaving MAGA

Rich Logis

I was addicted to Trump’s elixir of rage and fear for years. It’s finally losing its power over others

Dollar bills floating out of a voting booth (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Anti-abortion groups target Republicans

Cassandra Jaramillo - ProPublica

Multiple Republicans lose primaries after key party allies backed their challengers instead

President Trump's interview with NBC's Kristen Welker gets heated as she pushes back on fact-checking, and he walks out early. (Adam Bettcher / NBC)

Trump attacks NBC, ends interview

CK Smith

After repeated fact-checks and challenges, Trump turned his frustration and anger on NBC and Kristen Welker

Sesame Street's resident "Superheroes" visit NYC landmarks, as part of their lifelong support of their city. This picture of Abby Cadabby, Grover, Zoe, Elmo and Telly (left to right) is from Top of the Rock in 2013. (Eugene Gologursky / Getty Image)

Trump, Mamdani, Elmo and the NBA finals

CK Smith

A president, a mayor and a muppet have little in common — except New York's growing NBA Finals obsession

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